TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST...UPDATED
* THE FORECAST BASED ON THE EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM SHOWS NO THREAT FOR AREAS OF THE PACIFIC COVERED BY THIS PRODUCT.
WE ARE WAITING FOR SEA LEVEL DATA TO CONFIRM THIS FORECAST.
* TSUNAMI WAVES ARE FORECAST TO BE LESS THAN 0.3 METERS ABOVE
THE TIDE LEVEL FOR THE COASTS OF
GUAM... HAWAII... JAPAN... JOHNSTON ATOLL... MEXICO...
MIDWAY ISLAND... NORTHERN MARIANAS... NORTHWESTERN
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS... RUSSIA... AND WAKE ISLAND.
If there was/is tsunami from this thing, it would have hit the town of Kodiak seven minutes ago. Kodiak should have reported something by now.
It’ll hit here in about 20 minutes.
* THE FORECAST BASED ON THE EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM SHOWS NO THREAT FOR AREAS OF THE PACIFIC COVERED BY THIS PRODUCT.
I think this was more of a strike-slip fault, where it slides sideways across each other. I’m pretty sure for a large tsunami you need a vertical displacement of the seafloor.
The Indian Ocean earthquake with the huge tsunami had something like a 1000 km long fault and the one side was thrust up 30 feet or something! That is going to displace a LOT of water, which is more of the mechanism of the wave creation. Rather than just a shock wave caused by a quake with no large change in the seafloor. I think!?